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Before she was one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses, Jessica Chastain was, well, kind of uncool. And then theater changed her life. "I didn't do well in school. I was kind of awkward and strange, didn't have a lot of friends. I had a terrible perm. I fried my hair and had a red 'fro. I wore cowboy boots in school. I was not a cool kid at all …" she says in the new issue of Modern Luxury (via Celebitchy). She goes on to recount a memory from childhood of going to the theater with grandmother. "I saw this little girl onstage, narrating the show, and I thought: Oh, my god; that's her job? I want that to be my job. That's who I am," she said. "As soon as I had the vocabulary for it, I understood what I was."

Before she was one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses, Jessica Chastain was, well, kind of uncool. And then theater changed her life. "I didn't do well in school. I was kind of awkward and strange, didn't have a lot of friends. I had a terrible perm. I fried my hair and had a red 'fro. I wore cowboy boots in school. I was not a cool kid at all …" she says in the new issue of Modern Luxury (via Celebitchy). She goes on to recount a memory from childhood of going to the theater with grandmother. "I saw this little girl onstage, narrating the show, and I thought: Oh, my god; that's her job? I want that to be my job. That's who I am," she said. "As soon as I had the vocabulary for it, I understood what I was."